On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:52:50AM +1100, James Morris wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > > Virtual machines? > > Something to consider perhaps is the use of lguest, which is currently > i386 only, but does boot up nearly instantaneously, and can be scripted, > as its console is the launching shell. > > Is there an efficient technique for mounting a disk image so that changes > made to it are discarded? Sure, just create an LVM writable snapshot of your master image, and boot with that instead, and throw away the snapshot when you're done. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
